Lost load causes fatal SR 167 motorcycle accident

A motorcyclist was killed in a Auburn motorcycle accident on State Route 167 near the SR 18 interchange around 5pm on Memorial Day.

According to a report by Seattle’s King5.com, the motorcyclist was killed when he was thrown off of his bike after rear-ending a car that had stopped suddenly because of a lost load — a bag of aluminum cans — that had been dropped on the highway.

Lost or unsecured loads cause more than 400 Washington state motor vehicle accidents every year. Approximately 12 million pounds of refuse lost from cars and trucks ends up on the highways every year.